Help your children too
If you live with a solid mental set-up, there is a great danger in it: There is every possibility that your children will imbibe it from you.
I am reminded of a joke:
A husband and wife were both pick-pockets by profession.
They would often discuss that if they had a child, it would be very prosperous!
Soon, they had a baby.
The newborn baby however had its right hand closed very tightly. They could not get it to open it.
The doctor attending to it tried all sorts of things and finally took out his gold chain and dangled it in front of the baby's eyes.
The baby slowly opened its hand and inside it was the mid-wife's gold ring!
This is only a joke, but understand that as parents, you have every possibility of passing on your mental set-up to your children. So be aware every moment and work on your consciousness; work on cleaning the inner chatter and framework inside you.
We always try to control children and make them into puppets. Children are wild energy. We try to box that energy so that it becomes convenient for us to handle.
A small story:
Two dogs were walking down the road. The first one said, 'My name is Sandy. What is yours?'
The second one paused awhile and said, 'I think mine is No, No Roger.'
The dog's owner must have kept telling the dog, 'No, no Roger,' for everything that the dog did! The dog had started thinking that its name was No, no Roger! Just like this dog, children also start absorbing and learning from our words and body language. When children are very young, they refer to our words and actions subconsciously and take them to be the truth. So when you are with children, be even more aware, try to keep their intelligence alive instead of trying to blindly control them.
Mothers are continuously trying to do this. For example, if it rains, the mother will tell the children to get into the house because they might catch a cold. If she does this a few times, automatically the child will think of a cold when it sees rain. Even if it drizzles, the child will start sniffing.
Actually, man's body is the most intelligent, self-correcting, auto-immune system. But somehow, we trust our mind rather than the inherent intelligence of our body. There starts the problem and all our worries.
A small story:
A father camel was explaining to the son camel the body structure of their species. He said, 'You know, we have humps in our body to store water for a few days when we are in the desert.'
The son asked, 'Why are our eye lashes so long?'
The father replied, 'To protect our eyes from sand storms.'
The son then asked, 'Why do we have such bulbous feet?'
The father replied, 'So that we can travel fast in the desert.'
'Dad*,*' asked the son, 'what are we then doing in this zoo?'
You see, our body has been designed so beautifully! If we just allow it to run on its natural intelligence, it will function well. The moment you impose conditionings on the body, you start experiencing difficulties.
In the Himalayas, the sadhus, wandering mendicants, live inside caves. They are the healthiest people ever. Come sun or rain or snow, they continue to live; their body adjusts itself to the prevailing conditions. We just have to trust nature and our own immune system. But somehow, we keep imposing our worries and our mental makeup on our body. This is the root cause for all our diseases.